WVC 18 A- 3 - 9
§18A-3-9. County service personnel staff development councils.
(a) The Legislature finds the professional expertise and
insight of service personnel to be an invaluable ingredient in the
development and delivery of staff development programs which meet
the needs of service personnel.

(b) Therefore, a service personnel staff development council
comprised of representation from the various categories of service
personnel employment shall be established in each school district
in the state in accordance with rules adopted by the state board of
education. Nominations of service personnel to serve on the county
service personnel staff development council may be submitted by the
six groups, as defined in subsection (e), section one, article one
of this chapter, of the district to the county superintendent who
shall prepare and distribute ballots and tabulate the votes of the
counties service personnel voting on the persons nominated. Each
county staff service personnel development council shall consist of
two employees from each category of employment one of whom shall be
elected as chairperson by the staff development council members.
The councils have final authority to propose staff development
programs for their peers based upon rules established by statute
and the council on service personnel education. The county
superintendent or a designee has an advisory, nonvoting role on the
council. The county board shall make available an amount equal to
one tenth of one percent of the amounts provided in accordance with
section five, article nine-a, chapter eighteen of this code and credit the funds to an account to be used by the council to fulfill
its objectives. The local board has the final approval of all
proposed disbursements. Any funds credited to the council during
a fiscal year, but not used by the council, shall be carried over
in the council account for use in the next fiscal year. Any
carried-over funds shall be separate and apart from, and in
addition to, the funds to be credited to the council pursuant to
this section.

(c) At the end of each fiscal year, the county board of
education shall report to the staff development chairperson the
total amount and balance of the staff development council account,
the amount appropriated for the recent fiscal year, the amount of
funds requested and used by the staff development council, and the
amount of funds carried over into the next fiscal year. The county
board of education shall further provide to the state
superintendent of schools at the end of each fiscal year the names
of the service personnel staff development council members, the
name of the chairperson, the number of meetings the service
personnel staff development council held to plan staff development
programs and the number of hours service employees were provided
during their employment terms to implement their staff development
programs.

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